Re: Minor improvement for creating directory structure

On Thu, May  9, 2019 at 05:59:12PM -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> On 2019-May-09, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, May  8, 2019 at 07:40:16AM +0000, PG Doc comments form wrote:
> > > The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:
> > > 
> > > Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/install-short.html
> > > Description:
> > > 
> > > 1)
> > > $ mkdir /usr/local/pgsql/data
> > > mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/usr/local/pgsql/data’: No such file or
> > > directory
> > 
> > My docs say:
> > 
> >        -p, --parents
> >               no error if existing, make parent directories as needed
> > 
> > While I can see the value of "make parent directories as needed", having
> > it do "no error if existing" could be bad.
> 
> Why?  initdb is going to fail anyway if it contains anything.

I guess you would want to know right away.

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